Review: Rubaboo in the MacLab Theatre

review by Lauren Kalinowski photos by Nanc Price for the Citadel Theatre Despite the overly formal theatre stage, beautiful harmonies came from the audience to join Andrea Menard in song in her creation Rubaboo at the MacLab Theatre. The lively performance would have...

Review: the musical Hadestown

J. Antonio Rodriguez as Orpheus and company in Hadestown, North American Tour 2023Photo by T. Charles Erickson review by Hannah Rennie On November 19, I went to the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium for the closing night of a musical I’ve been dying to see:...

Modern Myth: Hadestown

Review and photos by Brooklyn Hollinger When myth meets melody, all sorts of things can happen. As someone who is familiar with myth, and interested in being just as familiar with musicals, I went into Hadestown ready to see the possibilities that performance can...

West Side Story film Review

by Rachel Papulkas It’s been over 60 years since West Side Story’s theatrical debut, but Steven Spielberg has brought back the Jets and Sharks for one more rumble. West Side Story is a classic in cinematic and Broadway history. A dark reimagining of Shakespeare’s...

A Christmas Carol at The Citadel review

“My nostalgia, however, may be bruised beyond recognition” Review by Douglas MacDonald There was a string of years in my childhood where every Christmas Eve my parents would take me and my brothers to see A Christmas Carol at the Citadel Theatre.  On...
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